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> Is that really worth it to get back what I would assume is on average a 3 year old laptop? Do you then re-issue this old, used gear to your new hires?

It depends on the device. A 3 year old M1 MBP is virtually identical to an almost brand new M2 MBP. There's no need to chuck an M1 MBP in the trash (metaphorically and literally) just because it's "3 years old".

Now if it's a 3 year old low end Intel machine then I'd be more than happy if it went away.

Servers piss away power at idle because they're not designed for low idle power consumption.

I personally just a regular PC desktop because I need the expansion slots. But SFF PCs are amazing home servers, and have more than enough power for what you actually need.

Also don't forget laptops. They're designed from the group up to be efficient AND have a built in UPS. My home server for the longest time was an old laptop with 32 gigs of ram (back when that was a huge amount).

Positive negative and meh is my preferred. Some things aren’t great, but were cheap enough to justify it.

Maybe make it a really tiny box in the middle that you need to zoom in to click to encourage mostly positive or negative reviews.

They're much better than verizon who will just terminate your line with maybe a little bit of heads up.

We found out the hard way when they terminated our line after having a sim card in a non volte phone for about a week, and didn't get the text alert until AFTER the line was disconnected.

You don't fall back to the actual 2g connection. You're supposed to fall back to 2g speeds aka 128kbps or 256kbps. You'll still be connected to LTE towers, just at painfully slow speeds.

Especially an infrequently driven classic car. Unless you're running no cats and drive it well over a thousand miles a year you'd never reach a net neutral emissions.

It's not just the EPA fuel economy requirements. Safety requirements mean cars need a lot bigger doors, more crumble zone etc.

Fires from gasoline cars are at least extinguishable. Lithium fires aren't really.

I have 32 gigs of ram just to browse the internet and maybe fiddle with some other things.

I'm using 26 at the moment with no virtual machines running.

4k displays are peanuts these days. A Mac mini + a 4k display would cost about the same as an iMac. But in a few years when the mac mini is useless you can keep the same display.

Or if you buy a nicer mini then you can get a nicer display later on. The iMac is still limited the base M3 CPU, while the current mini is available in either M2 or M2 pro. Hopefully they update the Mini with M3 pro because that's what I've been waiting for.

My biggest issue with the 4k iMac is that it's highest scaling option (smallest elements) is less than what you get on a regular 4k display.

The iMac I belive is capped at "looks like 2560x1600" while my 4k display "looks like 3008x1692".

I don't understand why more device don't have ambient light sensors built into them. Phones have been doing this amazingly for 15+ years but almost no displays do.

I think I saw a TV a while back that did, but that's 1 out of the 10 billion models out there.

Most modern displays support DDC/CI or whatever it is that lets your PC talk to the monitor and adjust brightness (and other settings).

Monitorian and other apps let you adjust those settings from your PC.

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian

And not enough pcie lanes.

I want the opposite of what Intel is offering for my home server. Give me lots of pcie lanes, but not insane power consumption.